books.google.com - A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in...https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cit.html?id=P_bPTgOoBYkC&q=sidewalk&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Death and Life of Great American Cities